Major Jayne Peters commits suicide after killing her daughter
The mayor of a Dallas suburb shot herself to death after fatally shooting her teenage daughter.
Mayor Jayne Peters stuck an envelope to her front door containing a key to the house and a note warning police they would discover something ugly inside. Three other notes containing instructions for handling family affairs were found inside the house, but they did not give any clues about the reasons why Peters, aged 55 years old shot her 19 year old daughter and then committed suicide. Police found the dead bodies after the mayor did not show up at a city council meeting on Tuesday and classified the case as a homicide-suicide investigation. The forensic tests made by the police indicate that the daughter, Corinne, was the victim of the murder, and that the major took her own life. Bob Mahalik, who is replacing major Jayne Peters for the moment, said that he had a feeling that something was not right when she did not show up at the meeting.
The two women were living alone since the mayor’s husband, Donald Peters, aged 58, died of cancer in 2008. Jayne Peters was the mayor of Coppell, a city located northwest of Dallas, for the past year, and she was supposed to lead the little town until 2012. Corinne Peters graduated from Coppell High School this year and she was planning on going to the University of Texas at Austin. There is no indication that the two of them had serious arguments, except there was a dose of normal fighting in the teenager-mom relationship.
